Fonds comprises records created and collected by Carleton Stanley that document his work, including correspondence, speeches, lectures, article and book manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.
Item is a manuscript with the first 68 pages deleted (line crossing out the text), and the remaining pages, starting with chapter 9, all containing the page number 191.
Item is a typed manuscript with a handwritten title (Loneliness Theme) at the top that refers to the paginated excerpts from the novel as they appear below.
File contains research notes, correspondence, printed secondary materials and a manuscript titled A Grand Burst of Glory, with "alias Livvy Higgs" handwritten on the first page.
File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The psychobiological orientation," and "Psychiatric diagnosis in life science perspective" by Alexander Leighton. Also includes related correspondence and review feedback forms.
File contains five manuscript drafts of The Truth About Mrs Van Haiden, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1979. File also contains an outline, contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.
Item is a typed manuscript with a handwritten title (Sequence of memories re. earlier years in school) at the top that refers to the paginated excerpts from the novel as they appear below.
Item is a single page with a handwritten title at the top (Aloneness & Home) that refers to the paginated excerpts from the novel as they appear below.
File contains six manuscripts drafts, a copyright registration certificate, correspondence and notes, an outline, and a chronology of events documenting the genesis and evolution of the script's development.
File contains a lightly annotated script and structure notes for Council Matters, a play by Chris Heide that was performed at the 2001 Chester Playhouse Summer Festival.
Item consists of a short handwritten manuscript about swords aboard the Mary Celeste, written on vellum by Stephen Orr, and collected by Irving Deale in 1973.
Item consists of a typed manuscript, likely written in 1973 by Irving Deale, about coming across a painting of the Mary Celeste (originally, the Amazon), at a Halifax antique shop, and discussions with Rhodes Dewis and Niels Jannasch about acquiring it.
Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of typed research notes collected by Irving Deale, and written by unknown persons likely in the 1960s, giving a brief outline on the history of the Mary Celeste.
File contains manuscripts by Robert Lester Dewis (1950, 1953); Alphonse Deveau (1968); George S. Bryan (undated); and Irving Deale's manuscript titled "A personal account of an interesting story, or a funny thing happened on the way to an antique shop " (1973).
Item consists of a facsimile of a passage from J. Alphonse Deveau's 1968 book "La ville francaise" related to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, with an accompanying English translation (likely undertaken by Irving Deale).
File contains multiple manuscript drafts of a training video script for the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, as well as related research materials and correspondence.
File contains an annotated manuscript, poster, and chronology of events of a staged presentation by Christopher Heide given in Amherst, Liverpool, Yarmouth, Greenwood, Antigonish and Sydney as part of a sales and promotion tour of the Dramatists' Co-op.
File contains three manuscript drafts of The Waiting's Over, which was originally written as a stage play titled Ed & Molly, based on an idea conceived by Barry Stuart. The radio version was broadcast by CBC Radio in 1982. File also contains a manuscript copy of Ed & Molly, an outline for its adaptation to radio, a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.
File contains three drafts copies of The Flood, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1977. File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.
File contains a manuscript titled "3rd draft / Spring 1987" with the penciled annotation "rehearsal draft - final copy"; pages labelled "rehearsal rejects" and "new original masters introduced during rehearsals; and pages of "crits/notes + rejected pages from work toward a rehearsal draft" dated September 1987.
File contains a manuscript, correspondence, CBC contract and a chronology of the evolution of "A Game of Chess," which was initially produced by CBC Radio as "A Pawn's Promotion."
File contains four pages of five traditional songs sung to Edward Charles Feltmate during his childhood in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Includes the text to the following songs: "The Cold Winters Night", "The Steam Packet Soverign [sic]", "The Gay Spanish Maid", "The Flying Cloud", and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" (written by an attendant of the [Sable Island] Life Saving Station).
File contains two manuscript drafts of the story, submission correspondence, a chronology of events regarding the story's various submissions, rejections and eventual publication in The Alchemist (Vol.1, No. 3), and a copy of the journal.
File contains a manuscript, rejection letter from Grain magazine, and a chronology of events regarding the story's submission and publication in Mud Creek Magazine by "Either/Or."
File contains three manuscript drafts of the story, which was was originally titled "The Last Day before my Father's Holiday." There is also correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the story's various submissions, rejections and eventual publication in the Chelsea Journal, and a copy of the journal (Volume 3, Number 6, November-December 1977).
File contains a manuscript draft plus rewritten sections, submission correspondence to multiple publishers, a grant application, and a chronology of events regarding the novella's creation, submissions and rejections.